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at the time vietnam was divided into northern south the us supported the government of south vietnam and military intervention intensified after nine hundred sixty five. but the us made strong resistance from guerrilla forces who used dense jungle as their base of operations. defoliant spraying was begun in an effort to deny cover to the guerrillas by eliminating the jungle falling which. as the war escalated the spraying of deval eons increased dramatically and much of the land in south vietnam was contaminated and left barren. the defoliant known as agent orange was made from the same chemical substances as herbicides used in the us but it was twenty five times more potent. agent orange also contained dioxin the most toxic chemical ever produced. dioxin remains in the environment for many decades and causes a variety of health problems. several million vietnamese and american soldiers who fought in vietnam were affected by agent orange. their children and grandchildren continue to suffer the effects. dioxin remains in the soil of vietnam today and the law. and has yet to recover. m
at the time vietnam was divided into northern south the us supported the government of south vietnam and military intervention intensified after nine hundred sixty five. but the us made strong resistance from guerrilla forces who used dense jungle as their base of operations. defoliant spraying was begun in an effort to deny cover to the guerrillas by eliminating the jungle falling which. as the war escalated the spraying of deval eons increased dramatically and much of the land in south...
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shutting down pharmacies you have the federal government saying that doctors who prescribe more than twenty pain medications a day and if you look at sarasota county it's got a lot of old people a lot of slip and fall accidents not to really get you know medical marijuana which can also be used to treat chronic pain is illegal in florida and in the majority of the united states so if you're looking at what can you prescribe someone who's got a broken hip or just had knee replacement surgery you're looking really at only heavy duty pharmaceutical such as hydrocodone and oxy contin these kinds of things so this pushes on two things one is made doctors terrified for their profession it is killing businesses by showing them pharmacies and it is preventing access to pain medication and i think when you look at this push like this is obviously the least bad thing this form in the sense that it's you know there is something very experienced about the fact that it doesn't say that it's for law enforcement purposes right and i think law enforcement even where they had a hand in sort of drawin
shutting down pharmacies you have the federal government saying that doctors who prescribe more than twenty pain medications a day and if you look at sarasota county it's got a lot of old people a lot of slip and fall accidents not to really get you know medical marijuana which can also be used to treat chronic pain is illegal in florida and in the majority of the united states so if you're looking at what can you prescribe someone who's got a broken hip or just had knee replacement surgery...
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another twenty percent of americans get forty percent of their income from the federal government so their reliance today seventy percent of americans get more benefits from the federal government in dollar value than they pay back in taxes survey after survey poll after poll still shows that we are a center right seventy thirty country seventy percent of americans want the american dream they believe the american idea only thirty percent want the welfare state. ok carl you're muttering under your breath i was saying this goes to the philosophy question in. my basic problem and we can get into the calculus of how many people don't pay taxes for whatever reason my basic problem for this is that if you look at people that are struggling in this country sometimes it's not an issue of unemployment sometimes it's an issue of over employment they might have to have five jobs to get by they might have back breaking work and that work is far more tough than the people sitting pretty in the top percentage of this country that is that can get out of taxes because they've got fancy attorneys th
another twenty percent of americans get forty percent of their income from the federal government so their reliance today seventy percent of americans get more benefits from the federal government in dollar value than they pay back in taxes survey after survey poll after poll still shows that we are a center right seventy thirty country seventy percent of americans want the american dream they believe the american idea only thirty percent want the welfare state. ok carl you're muttering under...
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they will not be put in military prisons the government councilors government lawyers repeatedly said we cannot offer those assurances we cannot offer those assurances and that was the only evidence that the government put in their case the government later shifted in their briefs in the briefs that they put into the second circuit and in those briefs they said that the plaintiffs are in no danger of being incarcerated by the military but that's better constitute evidence in a court of law and we can't believe the government's position and judge for yourself noted her opinion that the government had switched their position a couple of times in front of her they tried to hedge and say maybe some of the places are subject to detention some more so that reason we don't agree with and that's what we are doing in our papers before the second circuit when they hear this appeal shortly. this is the second acted under the n.b.a. by the language the n.b.a. judge force also addressed that in her opinion is that the n.b.a. doesn't say anything of the kind it just says the existing law applies an
they will not be put in military prisons the government councilors government lawyers repeatedly said we cannot offer those assurances we cannot offer those assurances and that was the only evidence that the government put in their case the government later shifted in their briefs in the briefs that they put into the second circuit and in those briefs they said that the plaintiffs are in no danger of being incarcerated by the military but that's better constitute evidence in a court of law and...
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it's left up to the states this was one of the things in terms of the federalism process or type of government that we have where power is left with the states. that's one of the areas that the states still have control over yeah it's so interesting i was at the republican national convention recently and the primary process is the same way every state is different and i think that confuses a whole lot of people and makes the process much more difficult absolutely roger i know last year your organization came out with some results from a study computer science and security experts at argonne found some of these machines especially these deeble machines could be hacked into changing the results talk a little bit about the findings and if anything's been done since this information came out. well our view is that people previously looking at the security of voting machines had largely been computer scientists cyber hackers and while we agreed that the attacks they demonstrated were certainly viable we thought there were simpler attacks attacks that are harder to spot and attacks that are potenti
it's left up to the states this was one of the things in terms of the federalism process or type of government that we have where power is left with the states. that's one of the areas that the states still have control over yeah it's so interesting i was at the republican national convention recently and the primary process is the same way every state is different and i think that confuses a whole lot of people and makes the process much more difficult absolutely roger i know last year your...